Avon ANEW CLINICAL Deep Crease Concentrate with Bo-Hylurox

March 28, 2007 at 1:09 pm · Filed under Points of View

Product Description from Avon:
Now you can visibly reduce the overall length, depth and number of deep expression lines around your eyes, mouth and forehead, the areas that are in motion whenever you show emotion. Our exclusive multi-patent pending Bo-Hyluroxâ„¢ technology - a powerful blend of natural active ingredients. How it works: Relaxes with Portulaca: An Avon patent-pending extract helps you lose those hard-to-treat creases while keeping your facial expressions, naturally.Fills with a booster: A multi-action complex boost Hyaluronic Acid, a gel-like substance that gives skin its fulness, helping the formula to fill in deep creases. With every drop discover the at-home alternative to line-relaxing injections. 1 fl. oz.Proven results: Instantly reduces crow’s feet and frown lines.After 1 week diminishes the appearance of deep lines and wrinkles around eyes and forehead.For optimal results, use with Clinical Line and Wrinkle Corrector….

Reviews from customers:

My Hyper-Critical Mother Even Noticed the Results!
Because I am near-sighted, I have deep creases between my eyes above the bridge of my nose. I started using this product in my late 40s when it was first released. IT REALLY WORKS!

Works great!
This product works great at reducing the lines on the forehead and in between the eye brows, it also works good around the mouth. I find this product as good as the $80 dollar Dior Serum and to ME the price is EXCELLENT compared to the high end lines which offer similar serum products.

Immediate results great - Long term disappointing
The product does a great job of almost immediately erasing very deep expression lines I have had since before I was 20 (I’m now 28). However, the effects wear off within 4-6 hours. Using twice a day really does help the effects last longer - like 6 hours instead of 4. But by the end of the bottle I did not see long term effects. Pretty much the same lines every morning. I did not buy another bottle. My mother (52 years old) loves the product and swears by it after her third bottle. Try it and see if it works for you.

Almost magic
I have gone through three bottles of this product, and almost cannot imagine life without it. Even my mother was hinting that botox might not be a bad idea for the deep creases between my eyes - I was 50 at the time, and thinking about the second half century! and decided that I should try something. I have never used Avon products, but the ads for this were intriguing and it was on sale…Almost immediately I saw the deep creases diminish - after about two months they were virtually gone.
I have since tried other Anew products, and they aren’t bad, but this one is almost magic. It smells good, it feels great, and IT WORKS!!!

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This is why you become an Avon Lady

March 26, 2007 at 4:18 pm · Filed under Points of View, Tales from the beauty side

I found this article in the independent. This is why I became an Avon Lady and now a sales leader. No I don’t exepct to get those kind of sales but an extra £100-200 every three weeks will keep me happy. It it starts to escalate, whic knows it could replace my full time job! If you have any questions about being an avon rep or sales leadership then you can contact me for an honest approach and I will probably be able to find your nearest salesleader so you can join up!

Ding dong - the Avon lady is still calling
Want to set your own targets and choose when you work? This could ring your bell, says Caitlin Davies
Published: 27 July 2006

Ding dong - who’s that woman at the door with a tote bag of make-up? It has to be the Avon lady, the butt of many a fond joke in the swinging Sixties when “Ding dong - Avon calling” became a national catch phrase. But far from fading away, Avon ladies - now called representatives - number 160,000 in the UK; more members than the British Army.

The beauty company started in the US in 1886, the brainchild of a door-to-door bookseller. In 1959, it launched in the UK, which remains one of its largest markets. Avon says today’s reps are more sophisticated and subtle in their techniques, using listening skills to succeed rather than jamming a well-heeled foot in the door. Men are out there selling eye-lift cream and after-sun oil spray, too, although normally as part of husband and wife teams.

Gail Reynolds, 35, stumbled across the job while working as a part-time accountant. She had just moved to Hastings when she saw an ad for sales reps, which promised a way to meet new people. Her first customer was her neighbour; her first order was for £135. Four years on, she now places orders, she says, of £15,000 every three weeks. “I will never go back to working for somebody else,” she says. And this is the big draw of the job; you’re a self-employed businesswoman setting your own sales targets, overseeing customer deliveries and handling accounts, and you work the hours that suit you.

New reps pay a £15 joining fee, get training and a selling guide, and can buy a starter pack with samples. Avon produces a new brochure every three weeks, from which reps order stock; a week later, the products are delivered for distribution. Orders are supplied on credit, with payment due 13 days later. Depending on sales, reps earn up to 25 per cent commission, while a sales leader also earns commission from her team’s sales.

Reps need to buy brochures and bags upfront, and if they don’t meet the minimum order requirement (£72), there’s no commission. Drawbacks include the occasional product being out of stock, and having to get cash from customers, not cheques.

Avon’s website states that the job gives reps the chance to earn £500 or more a month. But most reps, like Jacqui Gymer, 50, work just a few hours a week to earn some pocket money. She sells only to work colleagues in Essex because she doesn’t fancy knocking on peoples’ doors. But she says Avon products have a good reputation. “It sells itself and people like it,” she says.

Reynolds is on the other end of the scale, as she’s a sales leader. She recruits other reps, including her husband, Brian, a former supermarket manager. They work 10 to 60 hours a week each, fitting it around their three children. She has her own website (www.gailsavon.co.uk) and is in charge of 160 reps, whom she stays in close e-mail contact with. “Some women are painfully shy,” she says, “but I just say, bless you, after your third campaign you’ll be fine.” Her youngest rep is 18; the oldest 81.

Apart from being friendly and good at selling, Reynolds says you need to be reliable and have clear goals. Two years ago, she and Brian decided to buy a home - they’ve just made their first payment and Brian has bought a Jaguar.

Although Andrea Slater, president of Avon UK, says reps don’t need to be extroverts or “ultra-salesy”, many are mistresses of the soft sell. Charlie Marston, 34, is a former conference broker and hotel sales executive, and she became a rep when she moved to a village and didn’t know anyone. When a pregnant rep at a toddler group asked Marston to lend her a hand with distribution, she agreed. A year later, she is one of five Avon reps in her Stratford village and has her own established client base, fitting her work around her children and making deliveries while walking the dog.

She does her business online, spending about four hours a week at the computer. “I wanted extra income to contribute to the household, ” she says. “Now I can pay for holidays for all of us. Yes, there are lots of ‘ding dong’ jokes but then that’s what I am - an Avon lady. If you can talk to people, you can do it.”

To find a local rep, or to sign up online, see www.avon.uk.com

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Avon Anew Clinical Eyelift £10!

March 23, 2007 at 9:11 am · Filed under Points of View, Product Savings

One of my most popular orders is £10 in campaign 7. What our for your avon lady! I was out prospecting for new avon reps in areas of low representation and I could have conscripted around 6 cats. I wonder how cats know your a cat person and around 6 cats came up to me and meowed at me. I wonder what they were saying? ‘You with the opposable thumbs, get over here and feed me’ or ‘Avon human, knock the door so they open it! They are in look!’

I wonder!

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Glitter Masacra - Not like the picture!

February 16, 2007 at 10:00 am · Filed under Points of View

Not all reviews are good! But we like an honest approach, this item is being discontinued and its not one of Avon’s better ideas!

‘I brought the Shimmer Blue Glitter Mascara, in hope of a shimmery look as depicted in the brochure. So far I have not been able to achieve this effect. I am disappointed in this product, so I passed it back onto my rep. I do love Avon and will continue to buy and try new things’ Heather West Midlands

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Customer Review - Addiction to Anew Clinical Eye Lift

February 16, 2007 at 9:57 am · Filed under Points of View

‘I am a 66 year old woman, and I really thought nothing but the surgeons knife would do anything for me now! My daughter tried this product and recommended it to me. I was surprised at the results. For the first time in many years I could apply eye shadow and you could see it, it was not hidden by my hooded eyes! No it didn’t make me look 10 years younger, but I had a better look to my eyes I will certainly try other Anew products, not to take off the years but to put back a glow I had lost. I would recommend the eye cream to anyone over 40, and maybe if we had this technology back when I was 40 I would only look 50!’ Judith West Midlands

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My First Campaign…

February 16, 2007 at 9:51 am · Filed under Campaigns, Points of View

I am just focusing on friends and family contacts at the moment, to start my Avon life as it were. I am very surprise at the response. Most of my contacts have ordered at least one thing, and one work college has a whole list for me! As an ebay specialist, I took a glance to see if Avon was on ebay. There are a few people selling Avon on ebay but at below ‘cost price’ so I think that avenue is really a dead one since ebay and paypal fees will take up 12-15% of the revenue. If there are already products being sold under value there is no point. These rep’s are not making any money at it, and undermining the efforts of the normal Avon Lady by selling for less. Its the way the ebay market goes. So conclusions from my research, don’t sell Avon on ebay unless you can sell it at full brochure price.

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